Presenting Swedish Language Technology
by Björn Gambäck
The Information and Language Engineering group at SICS is currently
setting up a web-based information service for human language
technology in Sweden. The aim is to present the work done in the
field, both by researchers and by industry, to the Swedish public.
At the same time SICS will act as a national coordination point
for the academic and industrial language processing communities,
that is to channel information between the different groups working
in Computational Linguistics and Speech in the country. The work
on the web-site (www.svenska.sics.se) is funded by the Swedish
government through NUTEK, the National Board for Industrial and
Technical Development. Since the main target groups are within
Sweden, the web-site will mainly be in Swedish (‘svenska’ actually
means ‘Swedish’ in Swedish!); however, there will also be a part
targeted at other European groups looking for Swedish research
partners.
SICS has been chosen as the coordinator for this project since
SICS’s language group has a long-established reputation as being
one of the leading groups in the field in the country. In fact,
there are already two projects at SICS with somewhat similar goals:
in one project SICS is building a platform for Swedish language
processing and collecting resources in the field from the various
other research groups, freely distributing the results to the
research community. In another project SICS is creating a digital
library by collecting language technology related research material
from all the Nordic countries.
The work on the information service will mainly consist of two
parts: on the one hand, administrating the actual information
site; and on the other, the editorial work with creating and collecting
the material which will appear on it. The latter part of the work
will be carried out by an editorial board consisting of representatives
from several different research groups, adding both geographical
and competence spread. The information content must reflect a
number of research areas, and include and interest commercial
partners as well as the Swedish public. Thus, no single person
will be able to keep the information accurate and up to date.
The role of the editor in chief will be to co-ordinate a distributed,
collective effort. The editorial board will be headed by Björn
Gambäck and Jussi Karlgren, both from SICS.
For further details, please see http://www.svenska.sics.se/
Please contact:
Björn Gambäck - SICS
Tel: +46 8 633 1535
E-mail: gamback@sics.se
